[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 197 (Tuesday, December 20, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H10002]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                STOP TRADING ON CONGRESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE

  (Mr. WALZ of Minnesota asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALZ OF MINNESOTA. Mr. Speaker, again, this august body displayed 
the worst of what we can do. The opportunity to try and compromise was 
there. I have to say, last week I supported a bill put forward by my 
Republican friends, sent it to the Senate. It came back. And as the 
previous speaker said, I didn't even get a chance to vote on it. The 
real tragedy here is that there is another piece of legislation that is 
being held up that the American public knows needs to happen.
  We can have a difference of political opinions across the aisle. The 
one that needs to get done is to believe people here are playing by the 
rules. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge, the insider-trading 
bill that's 18 pages long, it's been sitting around for 6 years. It now 
has 240 bipartisan cosponsors. It is now suddenly buried and gone. The 
American people demand us to do one thing: be honest and work for them. 
That bill can ensure that happens.

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